[Princss_Ashes]

I am so confused on this. I need to write an indexer returning bool that will search for the book collection for a specific title and return true if the title is in the collection; otherwise return false, and I have to use the foreach statement to loop/iterate thru the collection and ingnore any books that have a null reference, and test this functionality in the Main routine. Here are my files (this is all in C#). Sorry I am so blonde ......

Book.cs

using System;

namespace Book
{
public class Book
{
private string title ;

public string Title
{
get
{
return title ;
}
set
{
title = value ;
}
}

public Book()
{
title = "Unknown title" ;
}
}
}

BookMain.cs

using System;

namespace Book
{
public class BookMain
{
public BookMain()
{
}

public static void Main (string [] args)
{
Book myBooks = new Book() ;
Console.WriteLine ("Created " + myBooks) ;

// Create several books
Book [] manyBooks = new Book [5];

// Create the individual books. It is an error not to
// create each reference in the array.
for (int i = 0; i < manyBooks.Length; i++)
{
manyBooks [i] = new Book() ;
}

manyBooks[0].Title = "Tom Sawyer" ;
manyBooks[1].Title = "Going to Town" ;
manyBooks[2].Title = "Intro to C#" ;

// list the books
for (int i = 0; i < manyBooks.Length; i++)
{
Console.WriteLine ("Book {0} title: {1}", i + 1,
manyBooks [i].Title) ;
}

Console.Write ("\n\n") ;

BookColl moreBooksColl = new BookColl (10);
moreBooksColl [0] = "The best book";
moreBooksColl [3] = "Science Fiction";

moreBooksColl.display ("More Books Collection");
}
}
}

BookColl.cs

sing System;

namespace Book
{
public class BookColl
{
private Book [] books ;

public BookColl()
{
}

public string this [int index]
{
// Make sure the index is within range
get
{
CheckNull (index);
if (index >= books.Length || index < 0)
{
return "Unknown book number" ;
}
return books[index].Title ;
}
set
{
CheckNull (index);
if (index >= books.Length || index < 0)
{
return ; // out of range, can't set
}
books [index].Title = value ;
}
}

public BookColl (int size)
{
books = new Book [size];
}

private void CheckNull (int index)
{
if (books [index] == null)
{
books [index] = new Book();
}
}

public void display (string title)
{
Console.WriteLine ("\n========= {0} ========\n\n", title);
foreach (Book bk in books)
{
if (bk == null)
{
continue;
}

Console.WriteLine("title {0} active", bk.Title);
}

Console.WriteLine ("\n========= End {0} ========\n\n", title);
}
}
}

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Hi Princss_Ashes,
A request, next time can you please intend the code and put in a code-box. It makes it easier for us to read.

From you code:

public string this [int index]
{
// Make sure the index is within range
   get
   {
	  CheckNull (index);
	   if (index >= books.Length || index < 0)
	   {
		  return "Unknown book number";
	   }
	  return books[index].Title;
	}
   set
   {
	 CheckNull (index);
	 if (index >= books.Length || index < 0)
	 {
		return; // out of range, can't set
	 }
	 books [index].Title = value;
   }
}

I thought you wanted an indexer that searched by book-title and returned a bool. The declartion of you indexer is wrong then.
It should be:

public bool this [string title]

Here, I gave you a start, now you can try the rest of the code. If you want, I'll code the rest of it as well.

[darth_ash]

Hi Princss_Ashes,
A request, next time can you please intend the code and put in a code-box. It makes it easier for us to read.

From you code:

public string this [int index]
{
// Make sure the index is within range
   get
   {
	  CheckNull (index);
	   if (index >= books.Length || index < 0)
	   {
		  return "Unknown book number";
	   }
	  return books[index].Title;
	}
   set
   {
	 CheckNull (index);
	 if (index >= books.Length || index < 0)
	 {
		return; // out of range, can't set
	 }
	 books [index].Title = value;
   }
}

I thought you wanted an indexer that searched by book-title and returned a bool. The declartion of you indexer is wrong then.
It should be:

public bool this [string title]

Here, I gave you a start, now you can try the rest of the code. If you want, I'll code the rest of it as well.